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ABSTRACT

The game Ball-in’ provides a new, unique feature of a raised, plastic cylinder that adds skill, and a complex scoring system to the game. The unique cylinder is attached to a larger plastic cylinder, or bucket, both which are targets for scoring by the toss of a bean bag ball.

Ball-in’ is a team sporting activity game which consists of a round,bean bag type hall (slightly larger than a golf ball) and two plasticbuckets (twelve to twenty-four inches in height.) The buckets will bemade of flat, hard, thin and flexible plastic that will bend into theshe shape of the bucket, where the two ends of the plastic willinterconnect when put together. Connected to each bucket is a three inchwide by three inch long plastic cylinder that sits slightly higher thanthe top rim of the bucket. The cylinder will have a clip attached thatwill allow it to connect to the bucket by sliding down over the top rimof the bucket for a snug fit.

Buckets are set on the ground at a recommended thirty feet minimum fromeach other, with a team player behind or on the side of each bucket(players are not allowed to step in front of the bucket.) A playertosses the bean ball toward the other bucket where their teammate is. Ifthe bean ball lands in the bucket unassisted, three points are earned.If the bean ball touches the bucket unassisted and in flight, but doesnot go in two points are earned. If the bean ball goes into the uniqueraised cylinder, the score goes back to zero, or the players can choosealternate scoring options of earning five points or earning three pointsand forcing the other team to lose a turn.

The team player receiving the thrown bean ball has the option ofassisting the ball toward the bucket by slapping it, in flight with onehand, where two points will be earned if it goes into the bucketassisted, and one point if it touches the bucket assisted. If anassisted ball goes into the unique raised cylinder, the originalcylinder scoring applies.

After the throw to the receiving player has been made, the receivingplayer then throws back to their teammate, and then the next learnrepeats the same steps.

A team wins when exactly eleven points are scored. If a team goes overeleven points, their points drop down to five points. When a teamreaches eleven points, the trailing teammates get a final throw each totry and reach eleven points. If achieved, the game extends to fifteenpoints. If the trailing team sinks the bean ball into the unique raisedcylinder, the score of the opposing team goes down to five points, butthe trailing team does not receive any scoring for the cylinder shot.

The first team to reach or go over fifteen points wins the game.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING

The drawing is a plan view of all of the parts showing my new design.The drawings marked A are the buckets in their setup position, ready foruse. The buckets marked A are hollow, with no bottom, and areidentical/symmetrical all around. The drawings marked B are the uniqueraised cylinders that are attached onto the buckets A. The drawingmarked C is the bean bag ball. The drawing marked D is a bucket at itsstored, flat position, showing attached drawings marked E, which aremale tabs, and drawings marked F, which are female holes that tabs Ewill connect into, to form a standing bucket as shown in drawings A.

1. The ornamental design for the game Ball-in’, with its unique raisedcylinder scoring feature as shown and described.